Yygdrasilian
Tempore patet occulta veritas
A curious feature of the Golden Dawn system when mapping the sequence of planets from Tree to Tarot is the Whitehead link: http://books.google.com/books?id=Ny...6-nJBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8
Perhaps the author(s) of the “Cipher Manuscripts” may have been bringing Qabalah within the scope of a kind of Erlangen program. However, being an encryption devised by Trithemius, we might consider the possibility of a clandestine tradition reaching Levi by way of Paracelsus &/or Agrippa.
...or, The Book of Thoth, exhibiting properties of a hyper-spatial geometry, is itself a ‘projection’ emanating from a higher dimension?
JordanO said:The version used by GD & friends is(was?) the William Wynn Westcott translation, today considered inaccurate to the original SY. His attributions are the familiar GD associations:
Beth - Mercury
Gimel - Luna
Daleth - Venus
Kaph - Jupiter
Peh - Mars
Resh- Sol
Tau - Saturn
A curious feature of the Golden Dawn system when mapping the sequence of planets from Tree to Tarot is the Whitehead link: http://books.google.com/books?id=Ny...6-nJBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8
Perhaps the author(s) of the “Cipher Manuscripts” may have been bringing Qabalah within the scope of a kind of Erlangen program. However, being an encryption devised by Trithemius, we might consider the possibility of a clandestine tradition reaching Levi by way of Paracelsus &/or Agrippa.
...or, The Book of Thoth, exhibiting properties of a hyper-spatial geometry, is itself a ‘projection’ emanating from a higher dimension?